Frea Buckler

Frea Buckler studied Fine Arts ant Central Saint Martins, London, and multidisciplinary printmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She works in abstract painting, sculpture and installation, including projects in the public realm. Her approach emerges from a deliberate embrace of uncertainty. She begins her work by intentionally working quickly or with unfamiliar materials, which generates problems that she then seeks to resolve through a process of experimentation and iteration.

She aims to create objects where the initial mistakes have been rectified or at least brought to a state where she feels they are visually articulate and coherent. Open to the material’s innate possibilities, which include an enquiry into surface, texture, edges, space, colour and form, she constructs and deconstructs her works responsively, replicating and reworking motifs and materials until she is satisfied with their outcome, the traces of this process remain visible.

A recurring element in her work is the fold, both as a physical structure and a conceptual device. The fold allows for movement, ambiguity, and transformation, it can suggest softness or strength, interruption or continuity. It introduces subtle spatial shifts that play with perception and invite the viewer to look again. Her works explore precariousness, temporality, beauty and order via the process of making, the interaction of colour and the impetus of the subconscious. Frea lives and works in Bristol, UK.